Jimmy Kimmel declared he was in “strange times” and claimed he was being followed by a helicopter after ABC pulled him from the air, his former “The Man Show” co-host revealed.
Kimmel’s longtime friend and former comedy partner, Adam Carolla, said he reached out to the talk show host hours after he was indefinitely suspended Wednesday for his malicious remarks about conservative icon Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
“Wow, it’s strange times out here,” Kimmel wrote, according to Carolla on Thursday’s “The Adam Carolla Show.”
Carolla, who worked with Kimmel on Comedy Central’s “The Man Show” from 1999 to 2003, was driving to a show when the news began to break about ABC pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from its broadcasts after two decades.
“I just sent him a text because you want to be on record as understanding or knowing or whatever,” Carolla said on his podcast. “It just said, you know, ‘Thinking about you. I hope you’re okay.’”
Carolla said he didn’t expect an answer back from Kimmel and urged his friend, “You don’t need to reply.”
Kimmel, 57, responded 18 seconds later, “which is what Jimmy does,” Carolla said.
The “Adam Carolla Project” creator then joked he booked Bill O’Reilly for Kimmel’s show — after O’Reilly repeatedly asked Carolla to help get him on.
“He just wrote back, ‘I’m being followed by a helicopter,’” Carolla said.
Kimmel’s alleged placid response to his longtime pal was a different tune than a report suggesting that he was “absolutely f–king livid.”
The two men have continued talking despite their two opposing political views.
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Carolla, known for refuting cancel culture, described himself as a Republican in his book “In 50 Years We’ll All Be Chicks,” before he claimed he was closer to Libertarians, and threw his support behind Andrew Yang’s 2020 Presidential campaign during a 2019 podcast.
Kimmel has made his opinions loudly clear, having spent the last year of his show berating President Trump and his supporters during his opening monologues, according to an assessment of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” by The Post.
The controversial funny man spent roughly 90 minutes of monologue time over 9 episodes to rail against Trump since his show returned from summer vacation.
The stretch of anti-Trump rhetoric ended Wednesday after Kimmel baselessly claimed Kirk’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson was a Trump supporter, after the suspected gunman’s background was revealed.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel told his live studio audience during Monday night’s show.
Kimmel was spotted outside a Los Angeles law firm on Thursday.
The $16-million-a-year late-night darling — who’s so far refused to apologize for the sick comments in order to get his show reinstated — emerged from his Los Angeles home in the afternoon, driving himself in his Audi S8 to an office complex in Century City, which houses various law offices.